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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Screensaver KCM
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () kde ! org>
Date:       2003-10-30 21:39:31
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On Thu October 30 2003 21:44, Simon Edwards wrote:
> On Thursday 30 October 2003 17:14, Tom Chance wrote:
> > That dialogue looks a lot better. I do wonder about the priority part
>
> though,
>
> > since unless one knows about 'nice' and setting priorities in UNIX, it is
> > meaningless and confusing, unless there is an obvious way to call up sone
> > help on it.
>
> Or more to the point, why the hell can you set the unix priority for the
> screensaver anyway? who needs this? for what?

If your computer is still actually doing something (compiling for example) you 
don't want the screensaver to eat all your cpu. Other people otoh like it 
when their screensaver is doing 3d animations as fast as possible.

Cheers,
Waldo
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